I was born in Lebanon, in 1972, while my parents were at the Brazilian diplomatic service in that country. Later on we went to live in the United States, where I had the decisive opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. This was my first contact with art, so I knew very early that I wanted to become an artist. My parents were also representative poets of the Amazonas and Central Brazil contemporary literature. These early transnational experiences and artistic environments had informed the way I view the world, but above all, showed me the direction I wanted to take in life. When back to Brazil, I enrolled for a degree of Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, but decided to leave in search of a subject closer to what I really wanted to do, moving to study Graphic Design. Parallel to my formal studies in Design, I attended the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, an institution renowned for the range of courses that were taught by important Brazilian contemporary artists. I started with figurative paintings till the day, when unrolling a canvas, I found out a back bone on the folds of the tissue. Then, for a long period I painted over those pre-existing folds of fabrics, using the canvas as a kind of skin. Since computers got ruling our lives, I moved on experimenting through this media, scanning my body and then projecting it out on larger spaces, using as well the photoshop to create bestial-human images, or filming a closed tunnel where people walked and skated, creating phantasmagorical images. The relationship and play between human body and the environment around is one of the keys of my work. Due to a scholarship provided by the École National de Beaux Arts in Paris, I moved from Brazil to France. At the end of it, I settled in the French country side, where I discovered the arts of gardening and cooking, mixing ingredients, colors and textures, as I have done before with my paintings. I also spent some years teaching art for kids and making artistic dinners for friends and professionally at the Cultural Center of Tinqueux. Those multiple occupations (drawing, painting, filming, cooking, teaching, and producing social events concerning artistic fields) seemed to me as a lack of concentration and no direction on my work. However, as years went by, and after a careful analysis, I realized it as being a natural product of the contemporary world marked by fragmentation and also of my personality in permanent search. Thus I came to face it as a positive answer to my restless personal wanderings. Lately, I came across a new passion the moment I touched the clay with the fever of my fingers. So, here are my last works made in 2012. My only commitment is to bring forth the essence of life, it doesn’t matter in which form I express myself.
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I was born in Lebanon, in 1972, while my parents were at the Brazilian diplomatic service in that country. Later on we went to live in the United States, where I had the decisive opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. This was my first contact with art, so I knew very early that I wanted to become an artist. My parents were also representative poets of the Amazonas and Central Brazil contemporary literature. These early transnational experiences and artistic environments had informed the way I view the world, but above all, showed me the direction I wanted to take in life.When back to Brazil, I enrolled for a degree of Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, but decided to leave in search of a subject closer to what I really wanted to do, moving to study Graphic Design. Parallel to my formal studies in Design, I attended the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, an institution renowned for the range of courses that were taught by important Brazilian contemporary artists. I started with figurative paintings till the day, when unrolling a canvas, I found out a back bone on the folds of the tissue. Then, for a long period I painted over those pre-existing folds of fabrics, using the canvas as a kind of skin.Since computers got ruling our lives, I moved on experimenting through this media, scanning my body and then projecting it out on larger spaces, using as well the photoshop to create bestial-human images, or filming a closed tunnel where people walked and skated, creating phantasmagorical images.The relationship and play between human body and the environment around is one of the keys of my work.Due to a scholarship provided by the École National de Beaux Arts in Paris, I moved from Brazil to France. At the end of it, I settled in the French country side, where I discovered the arts of gardening and cooking, mixing ingredients, colors and textures, as I have done before with my paintings. I also spent some years teaching art for kids and making artistic dinners for friends and professionally at the Cultural Center of Tinqueux.Those multiple occupations (drawing, painting, filming, cooking, teaching, and producing social events concerning artistic fields) seemed to me as a lack of concentration and no direction on my work. However, as years went by, and after a careful analysis, I realized it as being a natural product of the contemporary world marked by fragmentation and also of my personality in permanent search. Thus I came to face it as a positive answer to my restless personal wanderings.Lately, I came across a new passion the moment I touched the clay with the fever of my fingers. So, here are my last works made in 2012. My only commitment is to bring forth the essence of life, it doesn’t matter in which form I express myself.
Exhibitions :
2011- Movements on screen 11, Liverpool GB
2010- Performance artistique chez champagne Jacquart ,Reims, France
2010- Dans la lune, les pieds sur terre- salle Dans La Lune-Tinquex,França,
2009 -Cari thouraud, Reims França,
2009 "7 artiste, 1 église", Barbonval, França
2008 - Rouage, Langres - França
2007- L’art de la sieste, Parc Champagne, Reims - França; 2007-
2006- Épouvantable- Parc Champagne- Reims, France
2006 - Durexvideo/Cariocavideo- Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente - Coimbra, Portugal
2005 - Galerie d’établissement du collège F. Scamaroni Charleville, France
2005 - Salon de Montrouge - Montrouge, France
2004 - Posiçao 2004 - Rio de Janeiro, R.J.
2003 - Changing Channels - Berlin- Germany
2003 - Halles Boulingrin - Champagne -France
2002 - Recent collection of MAC (Niteroi)-Brazil
2001- Rio trajetorias- Urban art event in Rio de Janeiro-Brazil
2001 - «10 of 2001» School of visual Arts of Parque Lage (R. J.)-Brazil
1999 - Galerie Gauche - École National de Beaux-Arts (Paris)-France
1999 - Recent works - MAC Paraná (Curitiba)-Brazil
1999 - 2° Prize young artist at Americana (São Paulo)-Brazil
1998 - 55º Salao do Paraná - Casa Andrade Muricy (Curitiba)-Brazil
*(One of seven prizes) - Slide Installation
1998 - O ovo (The egg)- school of visual Arts of Parque Lage (Rio de
Janeiro)-Brazil
1998 - O mundo da Arte (World of art) - Post office gallery( Rio de
Janeiro)-Brazil1998 - «Festa da Carne» - Casa de Cultura Laurinda
Santos Lobo (Rio de Janeiro)-Brazil
1997 - UNIVERSIDARTE - University Estácio de Sá (Rio de Janeiro)
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Miri Felix (Mariana Cabral Felix de Sousa)Fine Artist
Nationality: Brazilian and FrenchBorn: 04/27/72
Collections:
Joao Satamini - Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi-Brazil
Museu de Arte contemporanea do Paraná-Brazil
Private collections
University degree:99 - ScholarshipÉcole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
92/96 - Graphic design «Univercidade» do Rio de janeiro - (Brazil)
90/92 - Architecture Universidade Santa Ursula - RJ-(Brazil)
Art courses:89 -“Studio Drawing” - Art Institute of Chicago
90/96 -School of visual Arts of Parque Lage Attended Several courses of drawing, painting, sculpting and art theory
Video- Fundição ProgressoProf: Tizuka Yamazaki
Contemporary art and estheticProf: Gerd Bornhein
Art is....Looking for expressing it Prof: Nelson Leirner
History of European Art at école du Louvre at Reims, France
Professional experience:From 2005 until now- teaching art at Centre Culturel de Tinquex, France2003 - Digital image workshop College «Pierre Doriole» France 99/02 - “Free lancer” developing graphic works97/99 - EMI Music- (art graphic department )95/97y- HLA Comunicação - (communication agency) 5-12/94 - «Univercidade» of Rio de Janeiro - photo lab assistant 2-4/94 -Janeiro Songs - (art graphic department)93 -The Image Bank - selection of images
